Jose-Rodolfo Hernandez-Carrion (rodolfo.hernandez@uv.es) is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia UVEG (Spain), holding a Ph.D. in Economics. He has been teaching Economics 101 since 1989 in different centers and various languages (Catalan, Italian, Spanish and English) and publishing in international journals with an open and critical multidisciplinary approach. He served on the governing board of Spanish Association of Regional Science (AECR) and Spanish Society of Systems Science (SESGE), where he was Vice-President and Editor in Chief of RIS (Revista Internacional de Sistemas – International Journal of Systems Science). After his Ph.D. he conducted research on “Economics Education for Change” and “New Pedagogies in Teaching Economics.” In the field of Regional Economics, he was Visiting Scholar at University of Bologna (1992) and participated in the Icarus Project at the supercomputing center CINECA (Italy), later at University of Limerick (Ireland), University of California at Berkeley and UCLA (Los Angeles), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), and UIUC in the United States (USA). Visiting Professor at Northeast Normal University in Changchun (China). He has been invited to five different European universities as an ERASMUS+ Professor since 2013, been keynote speaker with his lecture: ’Economics today: dancing without borders’ [a research project concerning “Economics, Education, and Information Needs: Critical Thinking and Effective Teaching,” initiated while at UNCG,https://library.uncg.edu/services/publications/library_columns/columns0910.pdf (page 4)] during the International Week in Portugal and at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.
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José Rodolfo Hernández-Carrión es Doctor por la Universidad de Valencia y profesor titular de la misma. Impartiendo docencia de Economía Política en la Facultad de Derecho, pertenece al Departamento de Economía Aplicada que constituye su área de conocimiento de referencia inevitable. Habiendo sido vocal de la Asociación de Ciencia Regional (AECR) y vicepresidente de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Generales (SESGE), su investigación, de carácter multidisciplinar, se orienta principalmente hacia temas de información y complejidad, manteniendo una visión muy crítica de las ciencias disciplinarias y del conocimiento científico; y, en particular, del papel de la economía en el mundo actual y académico. Su trabajo se concreta a partir de la Unidad de Investigación que dirige en el departamento de Economia Aplicada de la Universidad de Valencia:
http://www.uv.es/uvweb/departamento-economia-aplicada/es/investigacion/grupos-investigacion/economia-complejidad/miembros-del-grupo-1285857477831.html